The humanism of the past five hundred years is dead. Believing man was exceptional, it opened the abyss of extinction. A new approach is needed to establish the commonality of all life on Earth. This is not just the task of politics and philosophy. It requires the effort of all those who tear down convention in order to preserve what is meaningful. That is, the preservation not just of environments, but myth, irrationality, autonomy, and joy. To these ends, isolarii revive the ‘island books’ that emerged in Venice at the start of the Renaissance—each a ready-to-hand island, a place where time and space function differently. Together, a growing archipelago—representing a world of many worlds, not a globe.

Sounds cool. New interesting book every two months. I subscribed. h/t Dan Knauss in the Post Status Slack.

I started at Automattic three years ago today!

Since ChatGPT has plugins, it also has must-use plugins, right? I wonder if download stats are available to plugin developers…

I had fun tonight chatting with the Praxis bootcamp participants about strategies for using AI to accelerate their learning, test new ideas, and improve their work.

The hardest thing about cooking food from other cultures at home is getting the condiments right. Recipes for the main dishes are easy to find, but the recipes for incredible condiments you find at all the restaurants and food trucks never seem to show up, but they make the meal!

Today I sowed radishes, peas, kale, spinach, and cilantro outside, and started tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, and rosemary inside.

Some thoughts from having lunch outside:

• It is nice to get some sun!
• I am really looking forward to spring and summer this year.
• Also looking forward to the garden this year.
• Very first mint shoots are already popping up. I’m very happy to let it take over the spot it is in.
• The last two years I’ve had to reseed big parts of my yard in the spring. This year it will only be a small patch. I’ll probably put down clover seed.

Decided to just roll with it and pushed my work-in-progress to https://cagrimmett.com/weather/

Weather station blocks work in progress: Added historical sparklines for all data tonight. Thinking of replacing the Pressure line with an indicator arrow of which way it is moving since it doesn’t fluctuate much.

Working on sparklines with observations from my weather station for the last 48 hours in my weather plugin so you can see how things are trending.

I’m pretty pumped about this nor’easter because it is the first proper storm we’ve had since I put up my weather station. Can’t wait to see the weather data.

I write directly into the #WordPress block editor on a daily basis. It has been at least three years since I’ve lost anything I’ve written because it didn’t save.

Good rule to social media by: If you feel any twinge of outrage whatsoever, don’t RT/share it. You are probably being baited.

Every six months or so I’m reminded that I host a bunch of technical repair manuals for appliances on my server for my father because someone emails me asking questions about some issue that has stumped them. I usually pass them along to my Dad, who always knows the answer.

Live WIP output from my weather station WordPress block:

Looking forward to Michael Lewis’s upcoming book on SVB.

Stripe blocked payouts from SVB today. If any bank can quickly onboard and approve new accounts and get them connected to both Stripe and payroll systems, they’ll have 50% of US startups as customers by Monday morning.

TIL the plant I’ve been calling Moonflower is actually Datura and very toxic to humans. Better not plant them while we have a toddler in the yard.